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A new look at hospital cost function estimation
Velagapudi, Kalyani R Mandadi - 1995
The production of hospital care can be viewed as a two-tiered production process. At the first tier, intermediate services are produced which are used in the production of final services, which comprise the second tier of production. Intermediate services are not always produced internally. Some...
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Effects of personal costs of methadone maintenance, especially time price, on treatment attendance
Borisova, Natalia N - 2000
The study provides conclusive evidence on existence of economic barriers, namely money price and time price, to regular treatment attendance for methadone maintenance clients. The study is designed to develop improved time price measures and investigate their effect on treatment attendance....
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Policy focus: A robust normative evaluation of India's performance in allocating risks of death
Gravel, Nicolas; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Tarroux, Benoit - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 95-111
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a robust normative evaluation of the recent evolution of Indians' exposures to health-related risks. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares empirically the distributions of individuals' risks of death in India on the basis of new...
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Social capital, public expenditure and the quality of provision. The Sicilian experience
Laura, Azzolina - In: Stato e mercato (2013) 3, pp. 423-454
In the past two decades Italian regions have gained autonomy in managingpublic expenditure, while their political system was reformed. In order to explainthe persistence of the gap between North and South in relation to the quality ofpublic services, literature has returned to focus on social...
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La Spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nella Regione Emilia Romagna - Ricostruzione e benchmarking con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Welfare Reforming Papers by Nicola C. Salerno. …
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Il Pay-as-You-Go pubblico e privato: davvero diversi? Un confronto Europa - Us
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Data from Stability Programs (European Countries) and from Us Congress Budget Office and Us Bureau of Census are collected to investigate the burden each worker will have to bear in the future in order to finance pension and health care provisions. If the private side of the system is based,...
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Finanziamento della Sanità - Limiti del PayGo e proposta di sistema multipilastro con Welfare Fund
Salerno, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
proposal is presented: The Welfare Funds. Long-term investors offering both pension and health care benefist, and connected …
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La demografia dell’Italia e delle Regioni italiane. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
the welfare system in developed countries. Other chapters follow. …
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Assessing welfare effects of the European Choice Agenda: the case of health care in the United Kingdom
Zigante, Valentina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
need for, "modernisation," of the EU welfare states. This user-led, consumer oriented approach highlights the need to … understand the effects of the choice and competition policies in public service. In conventional welfare economic the focus lies … discusses choice policies in European countries and uses the case of choice in health care in the UK is to assess the welfare …
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Welfare Implications of HIV/AIDS
Haacker, Markus; Crafts, N. F. R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
The paper evaluates the impact of HIV/AIDS on welfare in several countries affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unlike … and suggest that studies focusing on GDP and income per capita capture only a very small proportion of the welfare impact …
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